Jeff Macnelly Quotes

#1. My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.

Bill Watterson

#2. Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.

Jeff MacNelly

#3. The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?

Anthony Daniels

#4. The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#5. I don't believe in crowd funders. I don't believe the fans should be paying for their own things.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

#6. Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper ... sharp pencils ... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk ... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter ... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.

Jeff MacNelly

#7. A career is a job that has gone on too long.

Jeff MacNelly

#8. The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn't understand. And it ended in tragedy.

Jeff MacNelly

#9. Ronan and I have always had a fucked up way of going about things. The first time he fucked me, it was next to my dead boyfriend's body. The first blowjob, in a basement he uses to kill people. He isn't at all sweet. But if I wanted sugar, I'd eat a fucking cupcake.

A. Zavarelli

#10. The strongest drug that exists for a human is another human being.

Ella Frank

#11. She was back on her skates, twirling expertly about the slippery surface of her life.

Anonymous

#12. Officially, of course, we're all to be treated the same, yes? But that is rarely put into practice.

Veronica Roth

#13. There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

Len Lye

#14. Never use prayer as an excuse to procrastinate doing what you already know is the right thing to do.

Rick Warren

#15. The longer we are members of the Church, the better we understand the gospel, the more we will be inclined to be peacefully minded. The more diligently we follow the teaching of Christ, the slower we will be to be angry with each other and the quicker we will be to forgive each other.

Theodore M. Burton